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...Reston's rise that crops up in magazine articles is that his sense of inferiority to his wife drove him to it. He married Sarah (Sally) Jane Fulton on Christmas Eve, 1935. Her father was a lawyer. His was an immigrant mechanic; the family had moved to Dayton from Clydebank, Scotland when Reston was ten. At Illinois she was Phi Beta Kappa. For Reston, according to a friend, college "didn't take." Reston says simply: "I married above...
From Ordinary Stuff. James Barrett Reston's qualifications as a newsman are pure homespun, patiently and industriously loomed from quite ordinary stuff. Reston was born, the second child of James and Johanna Reston, in Clydebank, Scotland on Nov. 3, 1909. His father, a machinist, took the family to the U.S. in 1911, but returned to Scotland in a few months, after Mrs. Reston fell ill. They settled in Alexandria, Dumbartonshire, in a "but and ben"-two rooms in a row of brick tenements on Gray Street, near the factory. The back parlor was used only on occasions such...
Efficiently and cannily, Producer Balcon takes the situation - and the spectator - for one lighthearted laugh after another, until, of course, the Scots crew gets the last laugh. Actor Douglas does astonishingly well to hold his own in such fast comic company. Alex Mackenzie, an actor who taught school in Clydebank until he was 61, is a grizzled old Scots beauty, and he can "throw a tub to a whale" (the Scottish phrase, aptly enough, for sharp practice) like few men since Sir Harry Lauder. Hubert Gregg makes a sopping good Milquetoast as Douglas' male secretary, who is haplessly stationed...
Died. Lord Aberconway, 74, board chairman of Scotland's famous Clydebank shipbuilders, John Brown & Co. Ltd., builders of the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth; in Denbighshire, Wales...
Reston is a "newcomer" who caught the boss's eye early. Born in Clydebank, Scotland, Reston came to the U.S. to live at the age of ten. He graduated from the University of Illinois, did a short stint as a pressagent for the Cincinnati Reds, then worked as a sportswriter and later as a London correspondent...